OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!” Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
She blinked. "Hmm? Oh, don't care. What did Anubis look like to you?" "What did... he looked like a guy. So?" "A… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a Yale boy.” “You missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering,” Jack said.… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling. "Jace!" She flew… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The US have dealt with Iran. I'm not saying attack it; I'm saying we should have taken it seriously. The Iranian connection… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She made a slow turn as she loosened her ponytail and shook her head; her hair streamed down her back like a… — Elizabeth Morgan Copy Share Image
Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm.' He moved her… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
One day as a young man, I was walking down the streets. And a group of Zulu guys was walking behind me… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck'… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
At daybreak Morn shall come to meIn raiment of the white winds spun. — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc. — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
“It spun faster and faster then everything was still. Absolutely still.” — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image